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And Then What...? is a frank account of Drewe's playing days over 17 years with 22 clubs. As a former England youngster tipped for the top, Drewe, 40, admits his career was dogged and undermined by soul searching and self-doubt. It culminated in the big center-forward going into rehab for addictions and an emotional breakdown after retiring. Nowadays, Drewe is putting his experiences to good use helping the next generation of players cope with the pressures and pitfalls of football.

To survive depression, you must first understand and accept it. Then, you can draw on the appropriate coping skills and techniques to overcome it. This self-help audiobook was written to educate, motivate, and inspire those who suffer with this mental illness. "If you are sitting in the darkness (due to depression), turn on the light. If you cannot find the light switch, seek out the help of someone who can!"

Suicide rates among Army soldiers increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to a recent report published in Injury Prevention. In the last several years, the number of soldiers returning from the Middle East with mental and physical wounds has continued to climb. According to Dr. Simon Rego, a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center, "Unlike any other time in history, U.S. military suicide rates now appear to have surpassed those among comparable civilian populations. It is therefore critical that we address this emerging public-health problem."

Facing challenges in your relationships, career, health or well-being? Worried important life goals seem to be slipping away? Whether you're faced with day-to-day nervous energy or experiencing a more crippling sensation of anxiety-induced panic attacks, sometimes life can test your nerves and stress levels. But there is a simple and effective way to facing your fears - both real and imagined threats, and making sure that you can bounce back from them stronger than ever before and go on to achieve your goals and lead a happier, more fulfilled life.

In The Gift of Bipolar, Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D., blends clinical insight with deeply human stories to uncover the surprising strengths hidden within the bipolar experience. Rather than focusing solely on symptoms and setbacks, this inspiring guide explores the resilience, empathy, creativity, and purpose that can emerge when bipolar disorder is understood and embraced as part of a meaningful life journey.

Depression and anxiety affect millions of people every day — but help is at hand. The Get to the Point! Guide to Beating Depression and Anxiety provides a wide range of simple, easy-to-implement solutions proven to alleviate the symptoms of depression and anxiety and fight their root causes, safely and effectively. In this audiobook, you will find effective tips and tricks to control depression and alleviate the symptoms of anxiety, along with up to the minute information detailing the very latest cutting-edge advances in medical science.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

Depression has only one goal: to kill you. Be it by the means of a swift and intentional act or by a long, drawn-out process of slowly taking your life with alcohol and drug abuse, it only wants you dead. Those who fight depression with a bottle of gin or a needle in the arm are losing the fight. They're currently killing themselves slowly, just like depression wants them to. Every antidepressant has a possible side effect of making your depression worse.

It’s okay that you’re not feeling okay! Whoever you are, I would like to start off by saying that you’re are not alone in this. We have all been there, going through rough times. Feeling the weight of the world on our shoulders. If this is something you can relate to, you have found what you are looking for.

Are emotional and mental health issues unacceptable to Christian conversation? Light in a Dark Place: Encountering Depression is an attempt to bring the experience of depression into the light of day. Those who experience major depressive disorder need to have their difficulty validated. Family members, friends, leaders, and pastors need to know what depression is. Finally, we need artillery to help to fight back against depression. Light in a Dark Place accomplishes all of this and more!

Nobody gets out of this life alive and nobody's life is perfect. Everybody faces their measure of grief. You may be the survivor of abuse or feel traumatized by events from your past. You may encounter the agony of knowing you've deeply hurt others or not accepting yourself and moving forward after making big mistakes. In this book, you'll learn about difficult subjects in an easy-to-understand manner. You can learn to transform a life of hardship into one full of promise and significance.

Grieving a loss is a terrible experience; there is no denying that. But there are ways to make your grieving period much less painful. Perhaps you have recently lost someone close to you and are struggling to come to terms with it. Or maybe you have been trying to deal with grief for a long time but are still struggling to overcome this all-encompassing emotion. 365 Days Of Grief Comfort has been specifically created for someone in your situation. This audiobook will help you deal with grief in a healthy and timely manner while coming to understand it in greater detail.

Es gibt Auswege aus der Depression - auch ohne Medikamente. Warum Antidepressiva keine Lösung und was die Alternativen sind, erklärt der erfahrene Psychotherapeut Thorsten Padberg in einem einfühlsamen Plädoyer. Denn lange schon läuft etwas schief im gesellschaftlichen Umgang mit dem Leid. Wer länger als zwei Wochen trauert, hat eine Depression, heißt es im Diagnoseschlüssel. Doch ist Trauer nicht eine angemessene Reaktion auf den Verlust eines geliebten Menschen? Muss sie wirklich mit Medikamenten und jahrelanger Therapie behandelt werden?

Noch immer wissen wir zu wenig über den Umgang mit "lockeren Schrauben" und "langen Leitungen" – früher wurde man weggesperrt, heute heißt es "Reiß dich mal zusammen". Wie begegnen wir Menschen mit psychischen Erkrankungen? Wie kann ihnen geholfen werden – und wie geht die Gesellschaft mit ihnen um? Sonja Koppitz, selbst an einer wiederkehrenden Depression erkrankt, spricht mit Betroffenen, schildert alle Facetten psychischer Erkrankungen und wirft einen Blick hinter die Kulissen des Universums Psychiatrie, wo Tragik und Komik oft sehr nah beieinanderliegen.

This guided mediation system gives you positive suggestions that will help you quiet your mind and melt away stress, leaving your body deeply relaxed for a great night's sleep. While you're sleeping, the program will help you remove negative self-beliefs and emotional blocks and help you find your inner strength and peace, so that you can stop depression and find joy in the present and future.

At the darkest point of a life-altering depression, Hannah Brencher took a silver marker and labeled a composition book "Fight Song." In that little notebook, she poured hope-filled truths and affirmations, knowing that one day, she - and you - would need a reminder to stay in the fight. Drawn from those glow-in-the-dark words, Fighting Forward is your empowering invitation to show up, claim hope, and take back your life one small win at a time.

Discover how you can start to move toward hope and healing from your mental health struggles. Mental illness loves to tell lies. One of those lies is that you should be able to manage what you're struggling with all by yourself, but in Depression, Anxiety, and Other Things We Don't Want to Talk...

We all know that good habits can help us turn our lives around. But if you’ve tried to get that daily exercise routine going, or have attempted a healthier diet or even tried to journal every day, you know it is not as simple as it sounds. Fear not—The Habit Coach™, Ashdin Doctor, is here to help. With his simple yet assured approach and his easy-breezy style, Ashdin not only picks the best habits for a positive outlook but also tells you how to go about making them a part of your life.

Embark on a transformative journey with The Path of Resilience, the groundbreaking first volume in the new 11:11 Magazine Conscious Living Series. This life enhancement and personal growth digest invites you to rediscover your innate strength, guiding you through the cycles of challenge and renewal that shape the human experience.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this “gripping” (TechCrunch), “eye-opening” (Gayle King, Oprah Daily) memoir of mental illness and entrepreneurship, the co-founder of the menswear startup Bonobos opens up about the struggle with bipolar disorder that nearly cost him everything. “Arrestingly...